Marine archaeologists have published stunning images of what they think is an 8000-year-old shipyard located just off the coast of England. They have just found a large number of timber boards that may have once been a platform on the seafloor.
Researchers believe that the submerged structure may provide new insights into Stone Age technology and society. The find was made by divers from the Maritime Archaeology Trust.
They made the discovery at the submerged Mesolithic landscape at Bouldnor Cliff, [which] lies on the edge of the drowned palaeo-valley and is now 11m underwater according to the Maritime Archaeology Trust .
This location is now located half a mile (1km) east of Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Bouldnor Cliff, is in the Solent Maritime Special Area of Conservation and the zone already has five important archaeological sites.
It was once dry land which was densely forested and part of a landmass that connected modern England to the continent. It now lies beneath the body of water known as the Solent, that separates the Isle of Wight from England.
Divers have been exploring this area since the 1980’s when a drowned Stone Age forest was uncovered. In the 1990’s, many worked flints were found, there. In 2005, a great number of worked timber boards were found jutting out of the water.
The Conservation zone is located some 36 feet or 11 m below the surface. The Bouldnor Cliff has already yielded many unexpected finds including the earliest piece of string and tools.
Two of the locations in the Conservation Zone are of particular importance. One has revealed thousands of flints and stone-age tools. The other is probably the oldest boat building site in the world according to the Maritime Archaeology Trust .
A DNA analysis of material from the submerged sites demonstrate that wheat was grown in Britain 2,000 earlier than first thought.
The prehistoric site is being constantly eroded by tides. This means that new discoveries are being revealed all the time, but it makes it very challenging for marine archaeologists.
During the 2019 season, divers found a new feature, constructed of over 60 pieces of split and trimmed timbers reports Maritime Archaeology Trust.
According to the Maritime Archaeology Trust, Facebook page, a photo-mosaic, pre-disturbance survey, of the site was taken at the outset before the different elements of the structure were tagged.
Some planks were removed, and white cord was used to mark the blackened timbers on the peat on the seabed. This allowed the marine archaeologists to develop a model of how the structure looked like in the ancient past and enabled divers to further excavate the site.
The connection of the structure to the world’s oldest shipyard is unknown, but both are adjacent to each other. It is entirely possible that the wooden platform was part of the shipyard complex.
The discovery has provided researchers with a great deal of worked wood for study. The Trust’s director Garry Momber, told the BBC that the discovery doubles the amount of worked wood found in the UK from a period that lasted 5,500 years.
The timber has been removed to the National Oceanography Center (NOC) in nearby Southampton. Here specialists will record and examine the wood. They will also chemically treat it and attempt to partially reconstruct the original sunken structure.
The latest discovery under the waters of the Solent is a further indication of a sophisticated Mesolithic society, that once thrived in this area.
It is demonstrating that the people in this era were much more technologically advanced than previously thought. It appears that they had certain capabilities up to 2000 years earlier than once believed.
Marine archaeologists are trying to record as much of the sunken platform as possible because it is being quickly eroded by the tides in the Solent. The structure is underwater and therefore does not receive any legal protection.
The Trust, which has charitable status, is striving to protect the sunken platform for posterity with the help of its supports and donors. It is hoped that some of the wood may eventually go on public display.
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Zionist propaganda context, for these networks to show how history was made?
Scotland at one time was not joined to England but separated by water ,the stone basis is much more ancient than England and the type of rock foundations are of very different rock structure .
Before that what constitutes Scotland was originally part of the Eastern American Continent but separated and moved to the East called the Laurentia continent by geologists .
No ship wreaks are shown for Scotland in the article don’t take that as true -far from it with the rough seas in Scotland as compared to England .
Most of the stories told have a certain narrative, which is not the Anglo-Zionist one? Now that the show on planet Earth is coming to a close, stories are extended to cover up the real truth within?
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